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Given the US-China trade war, one might think that Apple Inc. contravening Chinese labor laws would provide just the ammunition that Beijing needs to crack down on the tech giant.
Yet there are good reasons why China might prefer not to crack the whip too fiercely on the iPhone maker. Apple plays an important role in the local economy, but amid the rising tensions with President Donald Trump’s administration, the Cupertino, California-based firm has another significant role: as a quasi proxy, lobbying in Washington, D.C. for interests similar to China’s.
Trump has introduced or threatened tariffs on $300 billion-worth of
